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Quotes About Death

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.
~ Oscar Wilde
Only Destiny gave birth to Spirituality and nothing else, because this is also a form that reflects in the Great Void of non-Knowledge from the Mirror of Knowledge in order to keep the image of Spirituality as closest as possible to the Great Void-Being. Thus only the Spirituality is closer to the great Void-Being that is described to us through death and through the destiny of this Death which can be as tender to this ephemeral existence as he can be unforgiving to the mans Sacred Self.
~ Sorin Cerin
Through suicide, Man will completely triumph over Death, over everything that alienates him from himself and that once used Death as pretence, because nothing was more sublime and wrong in the history of the social evolution of the human being than Death, which was and still is now, subconsciously the Self Absolute of the Man! And yet, we must live!
~ Sorin Cerin
Death is reflected as either the greatest Evil or it becomes the greatest Saviour. And we get to the same conclusion, namely that Salvation consists of Death!
~ Sorin Cerin
For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth
~ Miguel de Unamuno
Know that holiness too is a part of love and you are a saint of my destiny, a religion of my life, a belief of the forgotten being inside me, the stranger that I am, headed for nowhere, knowing that where it is I will find my fulfilment through death, expecting you?
~ Sorin Cerin
And now, I am dying beyond my means.
~ Oscar Wilde
The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life? He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful? No indeed
~ Plato
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
~ Unknown
Man, condemned today to lose his dearest, tomorrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness
~ Bertrand Russell
Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using. Why so? More we enjoy it, more it dies; If not enjoyed, it sighing cries, Hey ho.
~ Samuel Daniel
Love, thou art absolute sole Lord Of life and death
~ Richard Crashaw
A deceased man has the right to breathe life into the womb of his wife and prove that love is stronger than death.
~ Unknown
When Death to either shall come -- I pray it be first to me.
~ Robert Bridges
Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
~ Robert Frost
Grumbling is the death of love.
~ Jeremy Taylor
My hopes are so high, that your kiss might kill me. So won't you kill me, so I die happy. My heart is yours to fill or burst, to break or bury, Or wear as jewelery, whichever you prefer.
~ Dashboard Confessional
He sees death in the prostitutes who have witnessed the death of honor, and daily multiply the death of love, who bleed away their own lives 50 times a day beneath the relentless stabbings of countless conjugations.
~ Ed McBain
There is a woman who spent her life loving that evil creature: she died. I'm sure she's a saint in heaven right now. You are going to kill me the way he killed that woman.That is what's in store for all of us who have unselfish hearts.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
~ Thornton Wilder
Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid.
~ Jenny Holzer
There is no greater love than this. There is no greater gift that can ever be given. To be willing to die, so another might live -- there is no greater lover than this.
~ Unknown
Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.
~ e e cummings